Our Mission

A seasoned Product Manager with over 20 years experience, Larry Schindel has brought numerous new products to market, continued the development of new features, and managed the end to end product lifecycle.  This work involves requirements gathering, market and customer research, roadmap planning, technology strategy, developing product specifications, functional requirements, performance requirements, UI/UX, and standards compliance. 

At Telos Alliance, he brought the following products to market:

• LA-5300 Broadcast Audio Processor 
• LA-5291 Dolby Transcoder
• UPMAX ISC Immersive Soundfield Controller
• AERO.enterprise  DTV Audio Processing Software
• AERO.20 DTV Audio Processor
• AERO.200 DTV Audio Processor
• AERO.2400 DTV Audio Processor

and was also involved in defining other products including the Telos Infinity IP Intercom platform

At Dolby Laboratories, Larry managed a line of OEM modules which 3rd party professional broadcast equipment manufacturers integrated into their products to quickly and easily bring Dolby technologies to the market.

• CAT1100 "MESA" - Dolby Digital Plus / Dolby Digital encoder
• CAT552 - Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Digital, and Dolby E decoder
• CAT559 - Dolby Digital or Dolby E encoder

Working with customers and performing market research to define the product roadmap and requirements is one thing.  Managing the process of bringing the product to market - product development, internal, external, and customer testing/certification, technology licensing, and the actual product release/launch - is another.  This involves working across all aspects of an organization including Engineering, QA/QC Testing, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, and Management.

We are experienced in navigating these often tricky waters; balancing time, cost, tradeoffs, and process improvements to bring a product, technology, or service to market in a timely and efficient manner.

Larry Schindel has brought hardware and software products to market in several companies, and has worked in both larger public company environments as well as smaller manufacturing companies where sometimes processes were either inefficient or even missing.  He has both established new processes and has improved existing processes, making product development and bringing a new product to market more efficient. 

Let us help make your operations run more efficiently.

We have lived on both sides of technology licensing; both as the technology licensor, and as the licensee.  We understand technology licensing, agreements, establishing end product requirements, along with test development and certification testing to ensure brand protection,  and can offer strategy, guidance, and development of SDKs and validation test suites. 

Product Specifications, Owner's Manuals, Quick Start Guides, Product Brochures, Spec Sheets, Product Training Presentations, Use Case Stories, and other "MarCom" / Technical Marketing collateral are all thing we are experienced in creating.  One of our key strengths is to explain complex technical information in an easy to understand manner, so that everyone can understand it regardless of their level of technical savviness and across different cultures, regions, and languages.

We have a deep understanding of broadcast/media technology and decades of hands-on experience working with every aspect of audio, including stereo, 5.1 and Immersive Audio / Dolby Atmos.  

Applications Engineering, Pre-Sales engineering, Field Applications Engineering, System Commissioning and Troubleshooting, and Training are all areas of our expertise.  This includes on-site support, training, and troubleshooting for key customers, even at large, high-profile, international broadcast events.